BBC - Press Office - Network Radio Programme Information BBC Week 10 Monday 7 March 2011 8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2 Elbow lead singer and BBC 6 Music presenter Guy Garvey Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a live set from Elbow, the indie band fronted by BBC 6 Music's very own Guy Garvey, in tonight's show, live from Manchester. Elbow perform tracks from their new album, Build A Rocket Boys!, which was released last month and follows 2008's Mercury Prize-winning album, The Seldom Seen Kid. Listeners can hear Guy Garvey present his Finest Hour every Sunday night, from 10pm, on 6 Music. Radcliffe and Maconie will soon be joining him on the digital station, with a brand-new weekday 1-4pm show launching on Monday 4 April.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producers/Ian Callaghan and Lizzie Hoskin for Smooth Operations BBC Radio 2 Publicity 10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2 Ukulele player, singer and comedian George Formby Stuart Maconie celebrates the life and career of George Formby, perhaps Wigan's most famous son, and asks whether he was, in fact, Britain's first pop star. Born into a showbiz family, George soon outshone his father, becoming a star of stage and screen who seduced audiences as far afield as Scandinavia, the Soviet Union and South Africa. While he might now be seen as a figure from a bygone era, his private life was actually more in keeping with that of a contemporary tabloid-fascinating rock star. Stuart discovers that Formby was a much more complicated character than the "cheeky chappie" caricature which endures. Even in his work there were contradictions. George sang about a Chinese laundry man called Mr Wu, yet in 1946 defied threats from the National Party leader Malan and performed for black audiences in South Africa.

His songs were also not always as clean as his windows, with the BBC choosing to censor some of his more suggestive lyrics. The documentary explores allegations of morphine addiction, subversion and battles with Christian moralists. Stuart also examines George's relationship with his wife and manager, Beryl, who ruled the star and rarely allowed him to kiss his leading lady on screen. Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Ian Callaghan for Smooth Operations BBC Radio 2 Publicity Composer Of The Week – Bruch Monday 7 to Friday 11 March 12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 Donald Macleod looks at Bruch's relationship with the city of his birth, Cologne, in the first edition of this new Composer Of The Week offering. Bruch had a very promising start as a student of Hiller and then embarked on a career in the wider world, caught up in the battle between conservative and revolutionary forces in music in the late 19th century. Bruch grew increasingly bitter over the years that he was not able to base himself in Cologne permanently, as the right job offer never came, and the success or otherwise of his works there would always matter hugely to him.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Megan Jones Monday 7 March 7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 Listeners are treated to a veritable feast of music by Rococo master Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, one of JS Bach's most talented sons, in tonight's Performance On 3, from the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, under the baton of Sir Roger Norrington, a period instrument expert, feature a wide and rich palette of the German composer's music, mixing symphonies and concerti and highlighting the significant role he played in bridging the earlier Baroque period and the later classicism of Mozart and Haydn. The soloists are Richard Lester for the Cello Concerto in A, and Steven Devine for the Harpsichord Concerto in C. Featured music by CPE Bach includes Symphony in G, Wq. 182/1; Harpsichord Concerto in C, Wq. 20; Symphony in G, Wq. 173; Symphony in E, Wq. 182/6; Cello Concerto in A, Wq.

172; and Symphony in E flat, Wq. 179. A recital given by soprano Amanda Roocroft, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau, follows all this week. As the programme reaches the 1860-70 decade in the Wigmore Hall's 100 Years of German Song series, Liszt, Cornelius, Jensen, Bruch and Brahms are the composers featured. Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Joan Carlos Jaramillo BBC Radio 3 Publicity Woman's Hour Drama – A Domestic Ep 1/5 Monday 7 to Friday 11 March 10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4 A Domestic, written by Peter Jukes, is the story of Mariola, a young Polish cleaner who works for a well-to-do lawyer couple in leafy Chiswick, and forms this week's Woman's Hour Drama offering. Kim and Olivier Anderson have a perfect marriage. As lawyers who work mainly in the area of marital disputes and contracts, they have a lot in common. They laugh riotously at the antics their warring clients get up to, to best each other in – and out – of court.

Then, one morning, Mariola finds an earring in the marital bed and it's not Kim's. On closer inspection, she realises it belongs to Elena, the nanny. Mariola comes from a broken family. She is very fond of the Andersons, despite finding their humour at other peoples' expense troubling. But she is very attached to their young son, Russell, and desperately wants harmony to rule, so she returns the earring to Elena's room. From there, events unfold that threaten to bring the family towards break-up. The couple who enjoyed much humour at the expense of their clients now find themselves in their shoes. Lydia Leornard stars as Mariola, Neil Stuke as Olivier, Clare Lawrence-Moody as Kim, Christine Kavanagh as Anna, Deeviya Meir as Russell, Sean Baker as Dr Kevin Riorty and Sally Orrick as Elena. Producer/Peter Kavanagh for the BBC BBC Radio 4 Publicity Monday 7 March 11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4 At a cost of more than £20m, Bristol has been turned into a demonstration Cycling City.

As the three-year project concludes in March 2011, Miles Warde assesses whether it has been a success. The original idea was to be a pioneering project, to be followed by many other cities, and originated from the umbrella organisation Cycling England. The many stakeholders in cycling culture provided a great deal of lively debate as to how the overall funding should be spent and how the success of the project should be measured. Since the original award, Cycling England has been abolished and it seems unlikely that funding like this will be available again for some time to come. Miles, who surveyed the early stages of the project last year, saddles up again to find out where the money has gone, how it has been accounted for and whether Cycling City has been a success. Presenter/Miles Warde, Producer/Christine Hall for the BBC BBC Radio 4 Publicity Afternoon Play – Mr Jones Goes Driving Monday 7 March 2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 Real-life husband and wife Richard Briers and Ann Davies star in Shelly Silas's play about the story of a man giving up the one thing that he has always loved.

Johnny Jones isn't particularly old – he's a regular man with a regular wife, two grown-up children and a handful of grandchildren. He has a good life and for that he's grateful. However, all that is about to change. Upon being told that a series of seizures he has suffered were due to epilepsy, rather than a brain tumour, Johnny's relief soon turns to gloom. While he accepts everything the doctors tell him, he cannot accept having to give up his driving licence. For over 50 years he has driven just about everyone everywhere in his beloved almond car. His wife, Alice, hasn't driven for years – why would she when she has Johnny to drive her everywhere? While he's happy to part with many other activities, this is one he just can't give up. Now, he has been told he must stop driving or face the consequences. This Afternoon Play offering is the story of the day Johnny takes one last journey in his car, which reveals some of his secrets.

Richard Briers stars as Johnny Jones, Ann Davies as Alice Jones, Muzz Khan as Imran, Helena Breck as Lizzie Gray, Jonathan Holby as Ian, Ben Tosh as Patrick, Stella Duffy as Johnny's mother and Wilf and Ruby Armstrong Ashdown as Johnny's grandchildren. Producer/Gordon House for Goldhawk Essential Ltd BBC Radio 4 Publicity Book At Bedtime – Pigeon English Ep 1/10 Monday 7 to Friday 11 March 10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4 Read by Jojo Baidoo, Pigeon English is the first novel by Stephen Kelman. It tells the story of 11-year-old Harrison Opoku, who has moved from Ghana to live with his mother and older sister on a tough North London housing estate. Shortly after he arrives he sees a boy he knows slightly, lying stabbed on the street and he realises he needs to learn the tricks of inner city survival – fast. And as he tries to come to terms with his new surroundings he befriends a pigeon who visits the balcony of his ninth-floor flat.

Other voices are provided by Adjoa Andoh, Madeline Appiah, Amelia Donkor, Daniel Green, David Holt, Osy Ikhile and Robert Sparks. Reader/Jojo Baidoo, Producer/Jane Marshall for Jane Marshall Productions BBC Radio 4 Publicity Tony Blackburn and Jenni Murray want to be laughed at for Comic Relief Hugh Dennis hosts this series in which six radio presenters, one from each of the six BBC radio stations – Radio 1 through to 6 Music – are given just two weeks to become fully-fledged stand-up comedians by performing their first proper gig in front of the general public at London's famous comedy venue, The Comedy Store. The contestants are: Dev from Radio 1, Tony Blackburn from Radio 2, Tom Service from Radio 3, Jenni Murray from Radio 4, Tony Livesey from Radio 5 Live and Shaun Keaveny from 6 Music. To help them on their way, each of them is paired up with a mentor who tries to help them steer clear of the many pitfalls of performing stand-up comedy.

Dev is mentored by Chris Ramsey, Tony Blackburn by Julian Clary, Tom Service by Sandi Toksvig, Jenni Murray by Mark Steel, Tony Livesey by Justin Moorhouse and Shaun Keaveny by Miles Jupp. Between them they hope to win the title of Stand Up For Comic Relief Champion 2011. On Monday at 11pm, the contestants are given a tour and some history of the Comedy Store by stand-up legend Mark Thomas. On Tuesday at 11pm, the presenters have their first try-out night and listeners hear how the mentors think their charges are coming along ahead of the big gig itself. On Wednesday from 6.30-7.00pm, the presenters perform their final routines at The Comedy Store. Listeners can tune in to hear how the presenters are coping with such a daunting challenge, and then vote online on which presenter is the funniest at bbc.co.uk/rednoseday/standup .

Presenter/Hugh Dennis, Producer/Sam Michell for the BBC BBC Radio 4 Publicity BBC - Press Office - Network Radio Programme Information Week 32 Saturday 2 August 2008 Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present from the Cambridge Folk Festival. There are live sessions and chat from Martha Wainwright and Karine Polwart, and a selection of performances from the main stage artists so far in this four-day Festival, including Devon Sproule, The Waifs and The Levellers. Following her Friday performance, Eliza Carthy talks to Mark and Stuart. The programme also features a pre-recorded interview with folk heroine Judy Collins, who takes to the stage on Sunday. BBC Radio 2's coverage of the festival continues on Monday 4 August when Mark Radcliffe is joined by Mike Harding for a highlights show (8-10pm) and in the Mike Harding Show (7.00-8.00pm) on Wednesday 6 August. The festival is also featured online at bbc.co.uk/radio2, with photos, video highlights and the folk and acoustic blog and podcast.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/John Leonard Lucy Duran presents highlights of this year's Womad festival recorded last weekend at Charlton Park, Wiltshire, including Niger's desert bluesman, Malam Mamane Barka, and Uzbekistan's leading traditional singer, Munadjat Yulchieva. Lucy introduces Malam Mamane Barka's Friday afternoon performance on the BBC Radio 3 stage. Formerly a popular musician during the Nineties, he decided to devote himself to the traditional music of Niger – particularly the music of the biram, a harp-like instrument from his native country played by the Boudouma people on the shores of Lake Tchad. Mamane Barka learned the instrument from the one remaining old master and is now maintaining the tradition single-handedly, bringing the instrument to the attention of the wider world with his own blend of desert blues. Other highlights include Munadjat Yulchieva's Saturday night performance in the Siam Tent as part of Womad's Sufi Night.

Munadjat started her career as an opera singer but turned to the music of her native Uzbekistan, which shows strong connections with Persian and Arabic music in its rhythms and the use of Sufi poetry. Munadjat Yulchieva was a nominee in the 2004 Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Full details of Womad are available on the BBC Radio 3 website, with complete recordings of many of the sets. Karlheinz Stockhausen, a uniquely uncompromising creative force and one of the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st century, would have turned 80 in August. The BBC Proms marks the occasion with the first Stockhausen day, culminating in this early-evening Prom which includes the world première of a work commissioned by the BBC. The concert contrasts a pair of Stockhausen's early works – the massive Gruppen (Groups), which passes ideas between the vast forces of three spatially separated ensembles, and Kontakte, referring to "contacts" between instrumental and electronic sounds – with two recent works, both of them excerpts from Klang, the large-scale sequence on which Stockhausen was working at the time of his death last December.

Conductor David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, joined by two other conductors – Pascal Rophé and Ludovic Morlot – for Gruppen. Trumpeter Marco Blaauw, who worked intensely with the composer for many years, is the soloist in the world première of the BBC commission, Harmonies, (written for him) and there are solos from pianist Nicolas Hodges and percussionist Colin Currie. Continuing the posthumous 80th birthday celebrations of iconic composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, this late-night Prom features his landmark choral work, Stimmung, for "six singers and six microphones". It was the first work of Western music to be based on the harmonics, or overtones, that make up the sound-spectrum of a single note and is a hypnotic piece that takes on a unique atmosphere in live performance. Among the many influences which Stockhausen acknowledged when composing the work was a month spent wandering among ancient ruins in Mexico. It is performed by Paul Hillier and The Theatre Of Voices – as adept in music of the Middle Ages as in new music – who have made something of a speciality of Stimmung.

Hillier's long association with the piece includes his participation as one of the singers at a BBC Proms performance 30 years ago. Memories of love shared and love lost by Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen, are charted in this documentary feature. Among the bohemians and artists who found refuge on the Greek island of Hydra in the early Sixties were a young Canadian writer who was about to start a career in music, and a beautiful Norwegian woman, wife of novelist Axel Jensen and mother to his son, Axel junior. When Jensen left with another woman, Marianne and Leonard were drawn together, sharing a seven-year romance that Cohen immortalised in his song So Long, Marianne. In recent years, Norwegian features producer Kari Hesthamar has made a pair of award-winning radio portraits of Marianne and Leonard. This re-versioning of the programmes includes a brand new interview with Marianne Ihlen in English, the language she spoke with Cohen, which offers fresh glimpses into their story. Just as Leonard places a different emphasis on the pronunciation of her name, Marian-ne, their story is distinct from the version made into song and both Leonard and Marianne have their individual interpretation of events.

8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 4 The life of Alan Blumlein, an engineer who propelled Britain into the vanguard of the modern electronics world, is explored in this week's edition of the Archive Hour. Working for EMI in the Thirties, Blumlein was at the forefront of a revolution which led to recorded sound, television and radar. In the field of audio he devised an entire recording system for EMI. Immediately afterwards he invented stereo, and in 1934 went on to make experimental stereo films and records. Blumlein then moved into television and was at the heart of the team which produced the first modern TV system, adopted by the BBC in 1937. Some even claim Blumlein should be regarded as the true inventor of modern TV. At the start of the war he switched to radar. In 1942 he was part of a top-secret project designing a revolutionary radar system for then Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which enabled the RAF to bomb through clouds. Tragically, a Halifax bomber carrying the system on a test flight crashed in Wales in 1942, killing Blumlein and 10 others on board.

He was 38 years old. The radar system he helped design was posthumously put into production and proved to be a "war-winner", enabling the RAF to both defeat the U-boats and launch devastating bombing raids on German cities. Whiley for Radio 2 evenings | RadioToday Posted by Roy Martin Whiley for Radio 2 evenings Jo Whiley is to take over the evening show on Radio 2, with Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie moving to afternoons on BBC 6 Music. Whiley's weekend afternoon slot on Radio 1 will be filled by Huw Stevens, with the changes all taking place from 4 April. Jo will be on Radio 2 8-9.30pm Monday to Wednesday. Bob Shennan, Controller of Radio 2 and 6 Music, says: "Jo's at the top of her game and is a first-rate broadcaster with a great knowledge of music. I'm looking forward to her bringing her own brand of presenting to the Radio 2 evening schedule." Jo Whiley says: "I've loved working at Radio 1 for the past 17 years.

It's given me opportunities I could only have dreamt of – Coldplay's first Live Lounge, Arctic Monkeys covering Girls Aloud's Love Machine, Jay Z performing live in my own lounge – I've even measured the distance between Bono's nipples live on air… don't ask." Jo added: "As well as supporting my love of music, Radio 1 have also supported and accommodated me bringing three further children into the world, something, as a woman, I will always be grateful for. I love Radio 1 and all my friends there, I'm excited to be joining Radio 2 and I'm proud to work for the BBC." Ben Cooper, Deputy Controller, BBC Radio 1, says: "Jo has been an amazing ambassador for Radio 1. From the Britpop days of the Evening Session, via the muddy fields of Glastonbury, to incredible performances in the Live Lounge, her passion for breaking new bands has been second to none." Jo will continue to present Radio 2's In Concert programme every Thursday evening from 8-10pm, featuring live performances and a round-up of the week's music gigs.

Mark Radcliffe will launch a new weekly show on Radio 2 on Tuesday nights from 11-12midnight, featuring a distinctive and eclectic selection of new, and classic music from Mark's own record vaults. [b]6 Music[/b] The Radcliffe and Maconie Show will shift to 6 Music to broadcast from 1-4pm each weekday. Nemone will move from her weekday lunchtime slot to launch a new 6 Music weekend breakfast show, which will be an independent radio production. Paul Rodgers, Station Editor, BBC Radio 6 Music, comments: "I'd like to thank Nemone for fronting the daytime show with such passion and verve and look forward to her new weekend breakfast show. Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's legacy in music broadcasting allied with their ongoing curiosity in new music is a perfect fit for 6 Music, enhancing the station's capacity to put today's alternative music into context by exploring its heritage." Radcliffe says: "Moving to 6 Music is a wonderful opportunity for Stuart and I to be part of the digital radio revolution and also the establishment of MediaCityUK in Salford. We feel like we have signed up to the future in a big way.

The music policy of 6 is right up our street with its blend of heritage tracks and emerging new talent." Maconie will continue with his existing 6 Music shows – Freak Zone (Sun, 6-8pm) and Freakier Zone (Sat 12midnight-1am). Stuart comments: "6 Music provides a priceless service to its legions of fans, and I'm happy to be joining the merry bandwagon of joy. The usual inane banter will remain, the only difference will be the hour – let there be light!" Stuart has also won a new commission to present an authored story of pop in a series of documentaries for Radio 2, to broadcast in 2012. [b]Radio 1[/b] New-music presenter Huw Stevens, who's currently on Wednesday nights on Radio 1, will take over Jo's shows. He's been with Radio 1 since 1999 when he fronted the Nations output for Wales at the age of just 17. Ben Cooper says: "Huw is loved by artists and listeners alike.

His ability to introduce you to new music, as well as make you smile, will make his new weekend show a must listen." Huw told us: "I love presenting on Radio 1 and can't wait to present my own weekends show. Taking over from Jo Whiley is a real honour. She's a brilliant broadcaster and an inspiration and I hope to continue with Jo's enthusiasm and love for music on the show. My current shows give me the chance to dig deep and champion exciting emerging music so I look forward to adding new sounds to weekend afternoons." Matt Edmondson will take over Huw’s Wednesday 9pm-10pm slot with a brand new exciting show. Matt recently covered Sara Cox’s Radio 1 Sunday show while she was on maternity leave and is a regular entertainment commentator on Fearne Cotton’s Radio 1 show.

0 0 499 01 February, 2011 Industry News 10:51 am 20112 Tuesday, February 1st, 2011 stuart maconie : definition of stuart maconie and synonyms of stuart maconie (English) stuartmaconie.com Stuart Maconie (born 13 August 1960) [1] is an English radio DJ and television presenter , writer , journalist , and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture . He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music , where he hosts an afternoon show five times a week (Monday to Friday, 1pm - 4pm), alongside Mark Radcliffe , called Radcliffe & Maconie , which broadcasts from the BBC 's MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester . The pair had previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 . He used to present his own solo show on Saturday afternoons from April 2006 until 29 March 2008, and is a frequent stand-in for holidaying presenters on Radio 2.

He also hosts BBC Radio 6 Music programmes The Freak Zone, on Sundays from 8 - 10pm and The Freakier Zone, on Friday night/Saturday mornings from midnight-1am. He lives in and broadcasts from Birmingham ,[ citation needed ] though the Radcliffe and Maconie show is broadcast from BBC's MediaCityUK studios in Salford, Greater Manchester . Contents 8 External links Musical career Maconie was born in Whiston Hospital, Lancashire . [2] While still at St John Rigby school in the sixth form, Maconie formed a band named (after several iterations) "Les Flirts", featuring Maconie on guitar/vocals, Nigel Power on bass and Jem Bretherton on drums. [3] They performed at Wigan venues like the BierKellar and 'Trucks'. Performance style was influenced by the early Elvis Costello school of delivery. Set highlights included the self-penned "Little Flirts" and a crowd-pleasing cover of " Satellite of Love ".

Maconie (right) with bassist Nigel Power Writing career In his career as a writer and journalist he has written for Q , Word Magazine , Elle , The Times , The Guardian , the Evening Standard , Daily Express , Select , Mojo , Country Walking, Deluxe and was an assistant editor for the NME . In September 2008, he began a new monthly column for Cumbria Life magazine. Maconie previously worked as an English and sociology teacher at Skelmersdale College, Lancashire for one year in 1987–88. [4] He has written screenplays for television and films. He is also the author of Cider With Roadies, an autobiography of his experiences as a music journalist. Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North, a humorous book that discusses the modern reality of the North of England (as opposed to the popular myths), was published in February 2007, with an audio version following in March 2009. Maconie, himself a 'northerner', uses his own childhood experiences alongside anecdotes from recent visits to illuminate the book.

A third book, Adventures on the High Teas: In Search of Middle England was published in March 2009. Maconie's March 2012 book, 'Never Mind the Quantocks', is a collection of more than 50 humorous essays from his monthly column at Country Walking Magazine. Maconie also is credited with starting the urban legend that Bob Holness , UK host of the game show Blockbusters , played the sax solo on Gerry Rafferty 's hit single " Baker Street ". [5] The rumour first appeared as a blatant joke in a spoof NME 'Believe It or Not' feature, but has since been repeated elsewhere as if it were true. [5] He also claims to have coined the well used phrase Britpop in the 1990s. "I'm sure someone must have used the expression before me about the Hollies, or the Beatles, back in the '60s. But I was the first person to use it about bands like Oasis and Blur". [6] Broadcasting career Radio 1 He was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1 , alongside Andrew Collins .

Also on Radio 1, from 1995 to 1997, Maconie joined forces with Collins presenting a music review called Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade , which originally went out on Monday nights from 9-10 pm and then on Sunday afternoons from 3-4 pm. From 1994 to 2001, he presented the satirical news review The Treatment, on BBC Radio 5 Live . In addition to this, in October 1996, Maconie took over a weekly album show on Radio 1 on Sunday nights, until late 1997. Radio 2 Maconie joined BBC Radio 2 in 1998, with shows such as All Singing, All Dancing, All Night, a northern soul music show, and, for several years, Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings. He also presents documentaries and deputised for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2's Drivetime programme. From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans .

In addition to his Saturday show, on 16 April 2007, Maconie joined forces with Mark Radcliffe to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 which was broadcast between Monday and Wednesday (Monday to Thursday up to April 2010) from 8-10 pm. As of spring 2011 this show was transferred to 6 Music in the afternoon slot, 1-4pm weekdays. BBC Radio 6 Music He also joined BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception in 2002 where he presents The Freak Zone radio show. It is described as "the weird, the wonderful and all that's in between", and is very diverse in musical content. This show is broadcast every Sunday from 8 - 10 pm, and has been supplemented in 2010 with The Freakier Zone, aired from midnight–1 am every Friday night/Saturday morning. As of Spring 2011 his Radio 2 show with Mark Radcliffe was moved to 6 Music, weekdays 1-4pm. Other broadcasting Maconie has also presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and has appeared on television and in films .

In 2007 he presented Stuart Maconie's TV Towns for ITV3 , six one hour shows about TV and film locations in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London. Other projects Maconie had his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001, collaborating with fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins , and with writer and pundit David Quantick , in Lloyd Cole Knew my Father, which has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The two also collaborated on the late night movie review television series Collins & Maconie's Movie Club in 1996 for ITV . He wrote Folklore, the official biography of long-standing Manchester band James , and 3862 Days, the official biography of Blur . In 2001, Maconie was the winner of the Sony Radio Academy Award for Music Broadcaster of the Year. He also won a silver Sony Award 2007 for the Freak Zone. He also guest starred in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights as the presenter of a spoof version of Crimewatch called 'Crimetime' and appeared as himself in Monkey Dust , becoming a victim of retro-obsessed serial killer Ivan Dobsky .

Maconie is also a keen fellwalker having completed, on 20 June 2009, all 214 Wainwrights [ citation needed ] (in the county of Cumbria ). He is an honorary member of the Wainwright Society, and gave their Memorial Lecture in 2006. In late 2009, Experience Northwest released a series of short stories he wrote about the Hidden Gems in England's Northwest. [7] On 28 December 2009, he won an edition of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind by answering questions on his specialist subject of British poetry of the 20th Century. Personal life Maconie is a supporter of Wigan Athletic . [8] Married, he lives in the Midlands. In December 2009 Maconie was awarded an honorary Masters Degree by Edge Hill University , Ormskirk . [9] In July 2011 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from The University of Bolton .

[10] Bibliography Stuart Maconie biography, Broadcasting career, Musical career, Other Stuart Maconie : biography 13 August 1961 - Stuart Maconie (born 13 August 1961) is an English radio DJ and television presenter, writer, journalist, and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is currently a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music, where he hosts an afternoon show five times a week (Monday to Friday, 1pm - 4pm), alongside Mark Radcliffe, called Radcliffe & Maconie, which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford, Greater Manchester. The pair had previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2. Maconie used to present his own solo show on Saturday afternoons from April 2006 until 29 March 2008, and is a frequent stand-in for holidaying presenters on Radio 2. He also hosts BBC Radio 6 Music programmes The Freak Zone, on Sundays from 8 - 10pm and The Freakier Zone, on Friday night/Saturday mornings from midnight-1am.

Broadcasting career Radio 1 He was a music reporter for Mark Goodier's Evening Session on BBC Radio 1, alongside Andrew Collins. Also on Radio 1, from 1995 to 1997, Maconie joined forces with Collins presenting a music review called Collins and Maconie's Hit Parade, which originally went out on Monday nights from 9-10 pm and then on Sunday afternoons from 3-4 pm. From 1994 to 2001, he presented the satirical news review The Treatment, on BBC Radio 5 Live. In addition to this, in October 1996, Maconie took over a weekly album show on Radio 1 on Sunday nights, until late 1997. Radio 2 Maconie joined BBC Radio 2 in 1998, with shows such as All Singing, All Dancing, All Night, a northern soul music show, and, for several years, Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Saturday evenings. He also presents documentaries and deputised for Johnnie Walker on Radio 2's Drivetime programme.

From April 2006 to 29 March 2008, Maconie presented the Saturday afternoon show previously presented by Chris Evans. In addition to his Saturday show, on 16 April 2007, Maconie joined forces with Mark Radcliffe to present a new show on BBC Radio 2 which was broadcast between Monday and Wednesday (Monday to Thursday up to April 2010) from 8-10 pm. As of spring 2011 this show was transferred to 6 Music in the afternoon slot, 1-4pm weekdays. BBC Radio 6 Music He also joined BBC Radio 6 Music from its inception in 2002 where he presents The Freak Zone radio show. It is described as "the weird, the wonderful and all that's in between", and is very diverse in musical content. This show is broadcast every Sunday from 8 - 10 pm, and has been supplemented in 2010 with The Freakier Zone, aired from midnight&ndash;1&nbsp;am every Friday night/Saturday morning.

As of Spring 2011 his Radio 2 show with Mark Radcliffe was moved to 6 Music, weekdays 1-4pm. Other broadcasting Maconie has also presented musical specialities for BBC Radio 4 and has appeared on television and in films. In 2007 he presented Stuart Maconie's TV Towns for ITV3, six one hour shows about TV and film locations in Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Liverpool and London. Musical career Maconie was born in Whiston Hospital, Lancashire. While still at St John Rigby school in the sixth form, Maconie formed a band named (after several iterations) "Les Flirts", featuring Maconie on guitar/vocals, Nigel Power on bass and Jem Bretherton on drums. They performed at Wigan venues like the BierKellar and 'Trucks'. Performance style was influenced by the early Elvis Costello school of delivery. Set highlights included the self-penned "Little Flirts" and a crowd-pleasing cover of "Satellite of Love".

Other projects Maconie had his Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2001, collaborating with fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Andrew Collins, and with writer and pundit David Quantick, in Lloyd Cole Knew my Father, which has been re-broadcast on BBC Radio 2. The two also collaborated on the late night movie review television series Collins & Maconie's Movie Club in 1996 for ITV. PREVIEW: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards | Music | Entertainment | Daily Express MUSIC PREVIEW: BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Fans of Sixties and Seventies folk will not want to miss the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards this Monday 2nd February, when James Taylor and Judy Collins both receive Lifetime Achievement Awards and perform at the event. 00:00, Fri, Jan 30, 2009 Folk singing legend, Judy Collins Both artists are icons in their field – Taylor for almost singlehandedly ushering in the era of the singer-songwriter on records such as Sweet Baby James and Mud Slide Slim, and Collins for her outstanding contribution to interpretative folk singing from the early Sixties on, and her experiments with the form later.

Joan Baez, Rufus Wainwright, Dolly Parton and Chrissie Hynde have all covered Judy’s work. The 10th Awards show will take place at The Brewery in London, and Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie will present the show on Radio 2 between 8 and 10pm. The categories and nominees are as follows: FOLK SINGER OF THE YEAR Chris Wood

Question: Who co-presents on BBC Radio 2 from 8 to 10pm on Monday to Wednesday with Mark Radcliffe?
Answer: STUART MACONIE